This post is continued from my first article which covered Day 1 and can be found by clicking here So day 2 begins. I woke up feeling extremely exhausted from my first day at VMworld. I had arranged to meet Chris Colotti, Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman for breakfast. Unfortunately twitter was not responding too well so Duncan and Frank never got my message on the location. Twitter #FAIL. They eventually found us though… After breakfast it was time for Steve Herrod (@herrod) key note speech. Steve Herrod’s key note was awesome. Covering all the different products, and what VMware had in store for the future. There were some cool live demo’s of VMware’s new capabilities, and this I thoroughly enjoyed. After the keynote it was time for Chris Colotti (@ccolotti) and I to get ready to present our first session “CIM1264 – Private vCloud Architecture Technical Deep Dive”. We […]
VMware vSphere 5 and vCloud Director 1.5 GA
This post is a little late. Being away with VMworld and presenting I found time increasingly limited. Anyway, both vSphere 5 and vCloud Director 1.5 have been released to GA. For further information follow the links below: VMware vSphere 5 VMware vCloud Director 1.5 VMware vShield 5
vSphere 5 Configuration Maximums
The VMware vSphere 5 configuration maximums document has been released. It can be downloaded by clicking here
My first VMworld 2011 – A speaker’s recap – Day 1
How do you start to describe your first VMworld? I think the best way is to use one word “WOW!” It all started off with attending a session by Duncan Epping (@DuncanYB) and Frank Denneman (@FrankDenneman) with Chris Colotti (@ccolotti) moderating. This session was titled “VSP1682 – vSphere Clustering Q&A“. It was very well organised and kudos to the guy that “Stumped the Chumps” and won the book for the unanswerable question. During this session I met Alan Renouf (@alanrenouf) who works in Technical Marketing and is a close friend of PowerCLIMan. I had spoke with Alan numerous times on Twitter, and was cool to finally meet him. I thoroughly enjoyed the live Q&A Duncan and Frank did, and was impressed with the sheer amount of people that turned up at 8am. Once the session finished it was off to the Speaker Resource Centre with Chris Colotti. We were presenting […]